Posted from Uvalde: "We are not a red state. We are a oppressed state."

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4. Not everyone in Uvalde votes

The county is 72% Latino, but Latino voter registration accounts for just under half the total. That's typical for Texas, where many Latinos don't register, fearing harassment or accused of being "illegal."

Looking on a congressional district and state district map, you definitely are gerrymandered, as is most of the border area and Rio Grande Valley. However, it is getting harder to do, as the new maps this year proved, a couple of 50-50 districts had to be created in order to preserve the current Republican configuration in Congress and in the state level because most of the population growth that created the need for the new districts is around San Antonio, El Paso and the Houston area, and 80% of new residents were Latino.

I lived in Texas for 25 years, some of that time in those scrub-brush ranch lands southeast of San Antonio. You've got a Democrat who is genuinely working for your interests in Beto O'Rourke. He can't do it alone but he came as close to beating Ted Cruz as any Democrat has done in decades, and people have to help put boots on the ground and get those voters to register and then to the polls.